moron.

Hence why its taken me a while to stumble across this post, but like most things in life, we wander across the internet – where it leads us, nobody knows…

Getting to my point, its wrong of the commenters to assume that everyone knows what a blog is, and its wrong to assume that just because Sam’s explained at the top what a blog is, that she therefore doesn’t know. She’s in all likelihood, written that to explain to the mag readers what blogging is about and is working on the assumption that actually not everyone DOES know what a blog is. Just because some people do, doesn’t mean that everyone does.

What’s also very interesting, having trawled through the responses, is that many have got on the defensive and not stopped and seen what her point was. Its not about who’s right or wrong, its about whether bloggers are legitimate press or not.

I don’t subscribe to this new idea of ‘citizen media’. I believe that bloggers should be answerable and accountable for their words in the same way that the press has a press complaints commission. who can take on the might of the general public’s ‘right to know’ though. Its impossible and totally impossible to police. anyone can say anything about anyone and claim ‘its my personal opinion and I have a right to it’…

Sally

I think that’s the point Sam was making. She said that bloggers are due their opinion, but asked if the should be recognised members of the press. as you said yourself, you can’t compare the two, but why then are bloggers now being given press passes when they aren’t members of the press?

As quoted from you, “but perhaps its time to take more seriously, the blogger who has a professional background to what she’s saying, rather than the one that talks the most and the loudest, often with not a lot of content.”

I also quote “I will hasten to add that I’ve never been to journalism school and don’t have qualifications in writing, however, I write with a journalistic approach.”

Um. No “professional background” and “a lot of content” *scrolls through entire wall of texts*?

Well.
Tl;dr.

I think that many of Sam’s points are valid. She says that a blogger who only uses makeup on their own face will give an unbalanced view. Well I can’t understand how no-one else can see that.

Chanel Vitalumiere – great for dry skin. Hopeless on someone who’s got oily skin and went out and bought it and thus gives a review of ‘this was hopeless’. Better for a pro to give a review saying ‘works best for people with dry skins, will slip and slide if you have oily skin’

Get the point???

Doh!